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Half a Mile Away Lyrics

Artist: Billy Joel
Album: 52nd Street

Little Geo is a friend of mineWe get some money and we buy a cheap wineSit on the corner and have a holidayHide the bottle when the cop goes byTalk about women and lie, lie, lieOh, my other world is just a half a mile away.

Wait for mama to turn out the lightCrawl on the roof and then I hit the nightI should be sleeping but tonight but I just can't stayI've given everybody so much timeNow I need a moment that's mine...Oh my other world is just a half a mile away

It's just a half a mile away

Angelina save a place for meI've been livin' someone else's life and now I've got to be freeTurn your transistor on and let the music playI try to keep the family satisfiedBut there's gotta be more to life than just try, try, tryOh my other world is only half a mile away

It's just a half a mile away

Comments/Interpretations

by DaveyFresh on 3/6/2012 1:14am"Half a Mile Away" illuminates the duplicity each of us has in his own "deep heart's core" to use a phrase from W.B. Yeats. Billy Joel is probably using a character depiction of someone he knows unless he has duped many of us... Anyhoo the song emphasizes the need for a human being to have some reward here, in this "land of the living" and that he feels loosed from all bonds once he has, as DeFoe says in "Robinson Crusoe:" finally broken free from restraint to fulfill the (wanderlust) exonerated in "Into the Wild" yet not a gnomistic isolationism, but a freedom like Christopher McCandless feels at the hippie stop in Northern Cal.